Company Now Supports Immediate In-Region Care For P&W GTF and V2500 Engines

Pratt & Whitney has announced a comprehensive upgrade to their Asian service capabilities that now provide rapid response engine repair based out of their Shanghai, China facility. 

The company sent personnel from the Dallas, Texas Pratt & Whitney Line Maintenance Services to train their counterparts at the Shanghai Engine Center, providing immediate in-region care for Asia-Pacific-based GTF and V2500 engine customers.

Technicians at the Shanghai Engine Center, a joint venture between Pratt & Whitney and China Eastern, have been certified to provide extensive V2500 line maintenance services for more than a year. Recently, the location added to its capabilities after the Civil Aviation Administration of China approved their services for the Pratt & Whitney GTF engine, opening up company-approved maintenance for a number of Airbus A320 Neos equipped with the system.

Xinglai Gao, a mechanic working out of Shanghai Engine Center since 2009, was one of the newly trained techs. His usual focus on borescope inspection lent him a base of skill for mobile repair work in the field. 
“Product safety and customer happiness are two critical aspects that drive technician performance,” explained Gao. “Having technicians who are ready to dispatch and deploy, dependably, from both ends of the world only helps increase our proximity to customers. Faster care means less downtime, more flight time and strengthened customer relationships.”

“Aircraft engines are the pearl of the aviation industry. I studied aircraft maintenance in school – everything from mechanics to electrical systems to hydraulics. Each day I come to work I continue to build upon those skills and marry them with Pratt & Whitney’s OEM expertise,” said Gao. “It is really cool to know that I am one of the faces behind dependable flight.”

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